ethnic cleansing

英 [ˌeθnɪk ˈklenzɪŋ]

美 [ˌeθnɪk ˈklenzɪŋ]

n.  (尤用于新闻报道)种族清洗

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• （尤用于新闻报道）种族清洗
  (used especially in news reports) the policy of forcing the people of a particular race or religion to leave an area or a country

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 种族清洗
  Ethnic cleansingis the process of using violent methods to force certain groups of people out of a particular area or country.
  1. In late May, government forces began the 'ethnic cleansing' of the area around the town.
     5月底，政府军对该镇周边地区开始实施“种族清洗”。
  2. ...the obnoxious policy of ethnic cleansing.
     可憎的种族清洗政策

英英释义

noun

• the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

双语例句

• Croatia accused Serbia of committing ethnic cleansing and genocide in the city of Vukovar and other areas in 1991.
  克罗地亚指控塞尔维亚人1991年在武科瓦尔市等地进行种族屠杀。
• Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo could unravel the rump Federation of Yugoslavia.
  在科索沃发生的种族清洗很可能使已经大大缩小的南斯拉夫联盟进一步解体。
• In disputed border areas, shelling and alleged ethnic cleansing by Khartoum government forces has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing south.
  在存在争议的边界地区，北苏丹政府的炮击与所谓的种族清洗，已迫使数十万人逃往南部。
• Many of the comments posted online call for ethnic cleansing.
  许多出现在互联网上的帖子都呼吁进行一场种族清洗。
• Mr Odinga has denied any foreknowledge of the ethnic cleansing of Kikuyus in Kisumu and other Lake Victoria towns where the Luo predominate.
  奥庭加断然否认他事先知道任何吉库尤人在吉苏姆（kisumu）或其他卢奥人占多数的维多利亚湖畔城镇遭受的种族清洗。
• The fact that ethnic cleansing is repugnant does not obviate the need to devise the most appropriate response.
  种族清洗固然令人痛恨，但这一事实并不能排除去构想更为恰当的应对方法的必要性。
• Amnesty International says a campaign of ethnic cleansing seems to have started to destabilise the region.
  国际特赦组织表示，种族清洗运动似乎已经开始动摇该地区。
• It hopes the West will forget ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia drove out more than three-quarters of the local population ethnic Georgians, Greeks, Jews and others leaving the minority Abkhaz in control.
  它希望西方会忘记其在阿布哈兹实施的种族清洗，这场清洗驱逐了逾四分之三的当地人格鲁吉亚人、希腊人、犹太人和其他人种只留下控制之中、占少数的阿布哈兹人。
• She wrote two volumes of her memoirs while remaining active in politics, campaigning against the Maastricht Treaty and condemning the Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
  她著有两本回忆录，同时还活跃在政界，开展各种活动反对《马斯特里赫特条约》，并谴责塞尔维亚在波斯尼亚的种族清洗政策。
• Georgia yesterday resurrected an international Racial Discrimination Convention from the 1960s to take Russia to a United Nations court in the Hague over its invasion of South Ossetia, accusing Moscow of ethnic cleansing.
  格鲁吉亚昨日翻出了上世纪60年代一项有关种族歧视的国际公约，就俄罗斯入侵南奥塞梯向海牙联合国法院提出起诉，指控其犯有种族清洗罪。